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construction and use

...Christie and popularized in 1843 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, measures resistance by comparing the current flowing through one part of the bridge with a known current flowing through another part. The
Wheatstone bridge has four arms, all predominantly resistive. A bridge can measure other quantities in addition to resistance, depending upon the type of circuit elements used in the arms. It can...

use in vacuum devices

Two types of thermal conductivity gauges, the Pirani and the thermocouple, determine pressure by the rate at which heat is dissipated from a hot filament. The Pirani gauge basically is a
Wheatstone bridge with one arm in the form of a heated filament placed in the vacuum system. The resistance of the filament depends on its temperature, which, in turn, depends on the rate of dissipation of...